Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre by Heather Cox RichardsonRequirements: .ePUB, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 6 MbOverview: On December 29, 1890, American troops opened fire with howitzers on hundreds of unarmed Lakota Sioux men, women, and children near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, killing nearly 300 Sioux. As acclaimed historian Heather […]
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox RichardsonRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.26MBOverview: In the midst of the impeachment crisis of 2019, Heather Cox Richardson launched a daily Facebook essay providing the historical background of the daily torrent of news. It soon turned into a newsletter and its readership ballooned to more than […]
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox RichardsonRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 245 MBOverview: From historian and author of the popular daily newsletter LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN, a vital narrative that explains how America, once a beacon of democracy, now teeters on the brink of autocracy—and how we can turn back. In the […]
Magdeburg by Heather RichardsonRequirements: .ePUB reader, 2.2mbOverview: 1631. Germany. As the Thirty Years War rages across central Europe, the Protestant denizens of Magdeburg are holding out against the armies of the Catholic Emperor Ferdinand. Sweeping in its scope and ambition, Heather Richardson’s debut novel tells the intertwining and conflicting stories of the Henning family, their […]
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox RichardsonRequirements: .MP3 reader, 503.7 MBOverview: While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a “new birth of freedom,” Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy’s […]